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The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) and community members as well as the ANC joined a protest by hospital staff at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, demanding that Gauteng Finance MEC Barbara Creecy allocate a bigger chunk of...SA Provincial Health

At least four managers have been suspended by the North West Health Department for allegedly mismanaging expired medication, reports The Times. "The North West Department of Health can confirm that four managers in Mahikeng have been put on...SA Provincial Health

Violence is getting so intense in the Western Cape that trauma specialists are increasingly using "war-zone" medical strategies in their efforts to save lives, reports The Times. Professor Andrew Nicol, head of trauma at Groote Schuur Hospital, said...SA Provincial Health

Students are protesting outside the Western Cape Nursing College in Klipfontein Road, Cape Town, attempting to bar management from entering the premises. Groundup reports the students were demanding increased safety on campus – they said some...SA Provincial Health

The healthcare system in the Free State province has collapsed, as evidenced by oversight inspections of the Alfred Nzula District Hospital in Trompsburg and the National District Hospital in Bloemfontein. The Citizen reports that this is according...SA Provincial Health

Thousands of prospective students in KwaZulu-Natal entered this year with the hope of pursuing their studies in nursing despite clear indications that the field was saturated and that jobs would be hard to get. According to a Sunday Tribune report,...SA Provincial Health

The Public Servants Association of SA (PSA) has expressed shock at the statement by Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba that employees’ salaries take the biggest slice of the budget because there are “wrong people” on the establishment. “The...SA Provincial Health

KwaZulu-Natal Health has expanded its registrar programme in 2019 from 314 to 414, but aimed to fill the 100 new posts only with black candidates. The Times reports that some called this discriminatory, unconstitutional and racist, but the...SA Provincial Health

Eastern Cape Health MEC Helen Sauls-August has condemned an attack on a hospital doctor during an electricity-related protests by the Zithulele community in the Eastern Cape. "The terrorising behaviour of the Zithulele community is unacceptable....SA Provincial Health

Durban clinics operated by eThekwini Municipality are falling apart, prompting a municipal union to demand that the health facilities be transferred to the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department. The Mercury reports that broken doors and windows, overgrown...SA Provincial Health

An Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital neurosurgeon has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. According to a Sunday Tribune report, Dr Anand Rapiti, 43, allegedly hired one of his patients to kill his brother-in-law, who is also a doctor at the...SA Provincial Health

The national government has taken over administration of the Eastern Cape’s mental health directorate. A Daily Dispatch report says this was after Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on acted on the health ombudsman’s recommendation to appoint an...SA Provincial Health

With baby deaths tripling in a matter of months, Health-e News reports that staff at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg have turned to the media in a desperate attempt to prevent further losses of life. “Currently I think this is Life Esidimeni...SA Provincial Health

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) will have spent R157m from January last year to the end of this year to investigate allegations that places at its medical school were being sold, reports the Sunday Tribune . Twenty-four staff members were...SA Provincial Health

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi suspects a syndicate is behind a series of criminal attacks on medical professionals and has reached out to police minister Bheki Cele to help catch those responsible. The Times reports that Motsoaledi has...

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